Garment hanger



Aug. 14, 1962 W. F. TUFTS GARMENT HANGER Filed Dec. 20, 1956 ATTORNEY-9taes 3,049,272 GARIViENT HANGER William F. Tufts, 2116 Peachtree RoadNW., Atlanta, Ga. Filed Dec. 20, 1956, Ser. No. 629,591 1 Claim. (Q1.223-88) This application is a continuation-in-part of my pendingapplication, Serial Number 367,425, filed July 13, 195 3, now abandoned.This invention pertains to garment hangers and has as its object toprovide certain hanger and hanger design details especially adaptable tothe manufacture of a garment hanger substantially from paper or othersheet materials in order to afiord the garment cleaning industry a moreeconomical and yet a suitably functionable garment hanger.

Practically the only type of hanger employed in the dry cleaningindustry today is made of wire. However, due to limitations of suchhangers, two accessories, the dress shield and the trouser guard, arerequired to provide adequate protection to the garment. The guard isemployed to protect the trousers from creasing and the dress shield iscommonly used to protect a dress from rust stains as Well as to providethe cleaners finished product with a more acceptable appearance.

Many attempts have been made to supplant the common wire hanger withhangers constructed of paper in particular. However, due to variousreasons none of such efforts have been successful.

A careful study of the subject reveals that what is required in anacceptable substitute for wire hangers is a balanced combination of thefollowing features: (a) Economy, (b) Strength, (0) Moisture resistance,(d) Elimination or minimization of assembly labor required by thecleaner, (e) Adaptability to the application of ladies skirts by theemployment of common straight pins as fasteners, (f) The ability of thehangers to nest and thereby to require a minimum space for shipping andstorage, (g) Features incorporated in the design of the shoulders toprotect ladies light weight garment from unsightly creases after longperiods of hanging, (h) Lightness of Weight.

Those skilled in the art have provided many hanger designs for paper orsheet construction, but which designs are deficient in one or more, andin most cases several, of the above set forth requirement features.

The aim of this invention, therefore, is to provide a garment hangerdesign which can be manufactured to possess all of the above establishedrequirements.

On the basis of careful tests it is believed that this aim has beenachieved in the improvements of this invention which improvements werenot obvious to those skilled in the art.

Referring to the drawings:

FIGURE 1 shows this invention designed with a trouser supporting strut.

FIGURE 2 shows the strut member of FIGURE 1.

The hanger consists of a generally triangular shaped relatively rigidsheet of material formed with a body. The hook or supporting means,though made of wire, may be made of plastic and attached to the body ina suitable fashion.

The hanger 22 of FIGURE .1 is designed with a trouser supporting bar 23.This trouser bar or strut is shown in further detail in FIGURE 2, thechief feature being that the ends are a reduced diameter providing theshoulders at 24. These reduced diameter ends and shoulders engage theholes 25 of the hanger body of FIGURE 1 thus putting the body in tensionwhen under garment load when supported by support hook 30.

A further feature of FIGURE 1 is that the body being provided with acut-away portion at 29 will stretch so that the holes 25 can be engagedover and on the strut ends. With the distance between the shoulders ofthe strut being great enough, insurance can be had that accidentaldisengagement will not occur.

The above description is not intended to include all and every possibledetail and variation of this invention but rather is meant to beexemplary of the spirit thereof.

What I claim is:

A garment hanger comprising a substantially triangular, relatively rigidsheet-like body, supporting means attached to said body at the apicalportion thereof, said body having integral portions at the ends of thebase offset laterally from the body, openings provided in said integralportions, and a strut received in said openings.

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